SAN JOSE — The Earthquakes open their 2014 training camp Jan. 26 and have scheduled five preseason games in February against Major League Soccer teams.

San Jose will spend a week in Tucson, Ariz., and another week in Portland, Ore., playing all but one of its games at those locales.

The Quakes will face the Los Angeles Galaxy on Feb. 15 at Chukchansi Park in Fresno.

During a seven-day trip to Tucson, San Jose is scheduled to play the Seattle Sounders on Feb. 5 and the Houston Dynamo on Feb. 8. The games will be shown on a livestream at MLSsoccer.com.

The Earthquakes also will participate in the Rose City Invitational starting Feb. 21 in Portland. San Jose will face the Portland Timbers on Feb. 23, the Vancouver Whitecaps on Feb. 26 and Jamaica’s Portmore United FC on March 1. The games will be shown via livestream at www.sjearthquakes.com.

The Quakes play four games in 12 days to start the season. They open the MLS regular season March 15 against Real Salt Lake at Buck Shaw Stadium. They also play host to Mexican club Toluca on March 11 in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal series. San Jose travels to Toluca on March 19 before a road game against MLS Cup champion Sporting Kansas City on March 22.

Elliott Almond is a reporter for the Bay Area News Group who has covered 11 Olympics, follows soccer and writes about social issues in sports such as concussions. Almond previously worked at the Los Angeles Times and Seattle Times as an investigative sports reporter and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times. An author of a book on surfing, Almond spent a good portion of his youth travelling the California and Baja California coastlines searching for the perfect wave. He now can be found among towering coast redwoods in remote NorCal forests.

More in News

Since chief executive Chip Bergh took over the company in 2011, Levi's has overhauled its image. In the past few years, it has dodged threats from athleisure companies and other denim sales. Last year, Levi's churned $5.6 billion in sales.